Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-12-30
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest In a
Condensed Form.

A sailor named Peter Carson was
drowned at Empire City.
The postotfice at Herman, Douglas
county, Oregon, has been discontinued.
A chair factory will soon begin OPP
eratiops at salem, employing from
thirty TO fifty men.
The life-saving inspectors recon-
mend that life-saving station be
established at Newport.
Subscriptions aggregating over
800 900 have been raised in Portland
to complete the Willard Hotel.
The order of November %, 1887,
disseminating the postotfice at Molaila
Clackamas county, has been resclhded
The warehouse of j. NJ, Mcintosh Il
Co, at Waldo Hills station on the
narrow gauge, blew over during high
wind. The warehouse contained 10
600 bushels OF oats, all sacked.
Lawrence Wilhelm committed sui
eide at his home, on the Schools ferry
road, near Portland, by shooting him
self in The temple. He had been Ill
for about year and half and was
out of his mind.
Captain Young, of the engineers al
Portland, reports that log boom at
Coquille City, Oregon, interferes with
the passage of the steamers tn 1T carry
the United States mails, and that the
navigation OF the Coquille river is i'm
peded by settlers telling trees in the
stream.
Mrs. Elizabeth Miner, the female
smuggler, appeared before the bar o
the United States District Court al
Portland to answer to charge o
smuggling opium. She plead guilty
to the charge. Judge Deadly ther
fined her $3.50 and further direct4t
that she be confined in the Multno
nah County Jail for one day.
As result of the Investigations 0
the swamp land agents, 10000 acre
OF land, at rough estimate, will b'
lost to the State, but titles to the land
will be established, and disputes which
have arisen over swamp land matter
since 1850, will be largely settled. l
is expected that patents for lands de
clared swamp will be issued by til
government to the State immedlatel.
after the submission and examination
of these reports.
As w. H. Hembree of East Port
land was going to Lafayette, he me
two men on the 70: d near Brdley'
farm, who caught his horse and mad
him dlsmount while the other held
revolver at his head and went through
him. 1t was very dark and impossibl
to see who the parties were. MI
Hembree had money hid in his boot
and when he jumped to the groun'
the money ratified, which attract d tn
attention of the robbers, who mad
him take off his boots and give then
the coin, which amounted to $50
They refused to take his watch an
allowed him to go.
The steamer Yaquina City, whic
went ashore On the sands near tn
entrance to Yaquina Buy, and is no'
a total wreck, was owned by the Ore
gon Development Company, and ha
been on the Pacific Coast only fe,
years. She was built by John Roac
& Sons, at Chester, Pa, in 1877, an
was christened the Western T,x,i
being intended for Galveston packe
She was an iron ship. 23l feet long, 3
feet beam, and 16 , feet depth of hold
J Her tonnage was 1,2l09S gross an
/ 93i.1l net. Her draught was II
feet. She had on but sixty tons {
freight and 800 tons of rock balla,
> when she went ashore. Her loss wi
! be quite severely f,lC by her owner
The Yaqulna came to the Paciti
e Coast in the summer of 1884, and ha
made about one hundred voyages bt
r tween Yaquina and San Francisco
! without any serious accident ever hal
pening heretofore. The vessel is va
: ued at about 100000. 1t is unde
stood that the insurance was $4,000